Martyres To Truth Poem by Mohammad Younus

MARTYRES TO TRUTH

They say:
Delve deep into your self-
Self is your soul;
Soul is from God.
So know your self,
You shall know your lord.

Simpletons!
They do not know:
Unless God graces us
We can't know the self
It needs wisdom
Wisdom emanates from God

They say
God is the real,
Man is His shade
Less than a reality,
More than a joke
God is shadowless
How can He have a shade?

They say
God was a hidden treasure
He desired to be known
Revealed Himself to Himself
In the image of man
True!

But man still is a mystery
His hidden treasure is never told
Gnostics who dared to speak out
Reddened the gallows with their blood
Thus they fell martyres to the truth

Mykoul